The town of Tenby, Wales, is always popular with holidaymakers, but it's getting an extra boost this year with the recent opening of the Wales Coast Path, an 870-mile meander along the country's edge that includes Tenby on its route.

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The city walls of the seaside resort town of Tenby, Wales, might have kept attackers out during the Middle Ages, but today they can't quite contain the pastel Georgian buildings spilling right out onto the sand.

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On the banks of the Danube, in the shadow of a castle from the Middle Ages, Dürnstein, Austria, is an impossibly quaint little town.

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Everything in Dürnstein, Austria, from the red-tiled roofs to the baroque clock tower to the winding cobblestoned alleys, seems lifted straight from the Brothers Grimm.

Dürnstein, Austria, is an under-explored retreat and a gateway to the surrounding Wachau valley, a grape region prized for crisp, dry Rieslings and Grüner Veltliners.

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Founded in 1593 as a stronghold of the Venetian Republic, the UNESCO World Heritage town of Palmanova, Italy, was built in a unique, 18-sided octadecagon shape.

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In Palmanova, Italy, look out for the symbol of a leafy bough, or a frasca, hanging outside of restaurants to pinpoint ones serving regionally sourced food, such as the classic Venetian dish baccalà, made with dry-salted cod.

One of the quaintest towns in the Périgord Noir, Trémolat, France, sits on a horseshoe-shaped bend in the Dordogne River and is dominated by a fortresslike Romanesque church that dates back to the 11th century.

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Trémolat, France, offers weekly cottage rentals at nearly half the cost of Provence—and the small-town experience is no less picturesque.

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